News
Clay County Prosecutor’s Office launches PROPS program to recognize outstanding public service
CLAY COUNTY — The Clay County Prosecutor’s Office along with law enforcement leaders in Clay County united on Thursday, March 19, for the inaugural Prosecutors Recognizing Outstanding Public Service event.
Community Living
DONNA ERICKSON’S BEST BITES: Entertaining easy with oven-baked cheese sandwiches
By Donna Erickson Is there such a thing as “easy entertaining”? In spite of my intentions, parties always become a bit of a production, with my long to-do lists and shoutouts to kids to run last-minute trips to the store to pick up mushrooms for gravy — or to our Scandinavian market for lingonberries and…
Multimedia
Gallery | Baseball jamboree
Kearney, Liberty, Liberty North and Smithville baseball in jamboree Saturday, March 14 at Creekside Baseball Complex.
Special Sections
Entertainment
MOVIE REVIEW: You might want to ‘Tow’ this one away
By Simonie Wilson Rose Byrne (“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” “Bridesmaids”) is riding an Oscar nomination high and the plot of “Tow” sounds right up that alley — a true story about a woman who lives in her car in Seattle who successfully, but laboriously battles the system to win her car back…
Opinion
Sunshine Laws keep government in the light
As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously described, sunlight is the best disinfectant. In American democracy, that idea takes legal form through Sunshine Laws. These open-record laws require government agencies to conduct business transparently and make public records accessible. These laws are among the most powerful tools citizens and journalists have to hold their…